Category Archives: personal blog

The source of my unhappiness is my Amateur Radio situation. This is a hobby that I have neglected for over a year. I really went a bit pear shaped with it, and could not bring myself to self to use my licence. It’s bugging me. I know, all I have to do is pick upContinue reading “1440 – I am not happy”

On Saturday, I wrote about our visit to the Kempton Steam Museum. I commented on how magnificent I thoughtt the building was, but lamented the fact that I hadn’t taken a picture. Luckily, Elayne had. The height of the building reflects the need to house the 19 metre tall steam engines that’s it houses. WeContinue reading “1439 – Kempton Steam Museum”

We went for a lovely walk this morning, not too far, but there was loads of wildlife, especially birds, these Egyptian Geese were puttering on a bit of a display for us.\ We even saw a couple of Deer, there is a Rut on but the ones we saw were being lazy. I’ll put aContinue reading “1438 – A little bit of Bird watching”

I’m really quite annoyed with myself. Today, we visited an amazing museum; The Kempton Steam Museum. The museum hosts two giant steam engines, that from 1929 to the 1980’s was used to pump drinking water that had been filtered through various processes in to London. Each steam engine was capable of pushing 19 million gallonsContinue reading “1437 – Kempton Steam Museum”

I am plumbing the depths of things to write about. It’s not because I have nothing else to write about, it’s partly because I want to practice doing a bit of random writing, and partly because I am deliberately avoiding some topics that I do want to write about because the topics in my mindContinue reading “1436 – The Evening”

With the work that we have had done in the house, we haven’t had access to the living room for the last seven weeks. I must admit, it’s not the work that has been the problem, the lads from Ace of Spades have been superb, even if they have consumed vast quantities of tea, custardContinue reading “1435 – Still tired”

My apologies, fell asleep and woke up too tired to do a full blown entry.

The Interchange is fully operational, and in use. The bus station is closed off and out of use, and I am in trouble because I am too grumpy. I agree that I am grumpy, but don’t ask me for an explanation or a reason for my grumpiness, it is quite irrational and stupid, but thereContinue reading “1433 – Out of sorts”

It really was very nice to just get out for a couple of hours this evening and have a wander around on the other side of the harbour. As you do, we took a few pictures which was very pleasant, I’d even taken my big camera with me, but as it was night, I tookContinue reading “1432 – Over the water”

Sorry, but it was at least 20 years ago. I was listening to the radio, and the presenter was at the Prickwillow Pump Engine Museum. I have to be honest and say. That they painted a fascinating picture of the engines that were used to drain water off the Fens in Norfolk and Suffolk. WEContinue reading “1431 – We visited a Museum”